Format:
1 online resource (661 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
9781000397338
Series Statement:
Modern Wars in Perspective Ser.
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of maps -- Preface to the second edition -- Preface to first edition -- 1 Introduction -- North America's emerging importance -- Canada's utility for France -- A global contest -- Geography and policy -- 2 Statesmen and regimes -- The Duke of Newcastle -- The Earl of Hardwicke -- William Pitt -- The duc de Choiseul -- 3 Origins: the contested regions, 1748-54 -- Acadia and Nova Scotia -- The New York frontier -- Ohio: the French predicament -- Ohio: the French solution -- Virginia responds -- A contest in India: Dupleix's project -- 4 Risking war, 1754-55 -- Canada's preparedness for frontier fighting -- British North America's unreadiness -- Britain raises the stakes -- The futile negotiation -- Britain and Europe -- London under pressures, Versailles under illusions -- 5 War without declaration: North America, 1755 -- The French navy gambles and wins -- Nova Scotia -- Braddock and disaster -- Campaigns in northern New York -- 6 Indecision in Europe: May to December 1755 -- The seizure of French shipping, 1755 -- The Netherlands and Hanover -- Pitt and the Russian subsidy -- Paralysis at Versailles -- 7 French triumphs, British blunders, 1756 -- Minorca undefended, Dutch neutrality inevitable -- France and the Diplomatic Revolution -- Admiral Byng and the French conquest of Minorca -- Oswego destroyed -- British and American armies -- 8 France's European war plan, 1756-57 -- Pitt attains his goal -- War begins on the continent -- France's European war plan -- The trial of Admiral Byng -- Pitt, George II and Germany -- The French invasion of Germany -- A Hanoverian policy -- Louisbourg and Lake George -- The Rochefort expedition -- 9 The tide turns, 1758 -- The French army in Germany: defeat and disaster -- War in India: Bengal.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138212817
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781138212817
Language:
English
